Since late 2022, Earth Baku has broadened its scope from the Indo-Pacific region to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Their latest operations demonstrate sophisticated techniques, such as exploiting public-facing applications like IIS servers for initial access and deploying the Godzilla webshell for command and control.
BITS and Bytes: Analyzing BITSLOTH, a newly identified backdoor — Elastic Security Labs
Elastic Security Labs identified a novel Windows backdoor leveraging the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) for C2. This malware was found during a recent activity group tracked as REF8747.
Part 1 | ThreatLabz uncovers new tooling from APT41 including DodgeBox, which uses advanced evasion techniques to deploy the MoonWalk backdoor that leverages Google Drive